Fund Raising Specialist, (P-3), TA (364 days), Post # 127174, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

The Personal Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) part throughout the Personal Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) works with UNICEF Nationwide Committees and nation workplaces to maximise engagement and drive revenue development. There are a number of groups throughout the PSFP part together with the World Campaigns staff. The aim of the World Campaigns staff (GCT) is to maximise personal sector income and affect alternatives from high-value audiences on the highest stage. We do that by creating an enabling setting for the PFP revenue streams, UNICEF Nationwide Committees and UNICEF nation and regional workplaces to safe $10M+partnerships for precedence programmatic areas together with local weather, information and analysis, and well being techniques. As a part of the GCT remit, the staff will establish and take away inner roadblocks, develop compelling viewers propositions, and develop new and significant methods to have interaction with high-value audiences. This place is within the headquarters of PFP, throughout the PSFP part, within the World Campaigns staff. It experiences to the place of Fundraising Supervisor (viewers lead) within the World Campaigns staff.

For each youngster, a Champion

Underneath the steerage of the Fundraising Supervisor, Growth Partnerships, and in collaboration with the complete World Campaigns staff, the Fundraising Specialist (Convening) will develop initiatives and help markets to discover new methods of working with the personal sector to speed up the expansion of high-value income streams on the eight-figure stage to maximise assets and obtain outcomes for youngsters.

How will you make a distinction?

Working in shut collaboration with fundraising groups in Nationwide Committees and nation workplaces, PFP groups, Regional Help Facilities, Programme Teams, and different UNICEF divisions, the incumbent is accountable for the next:

1. Venture handle the personal sector local weather co-creation supply

This supply is being developed out of a pilot in Denmark that introduced collectively a gaggle of personal sector entities to agree upon what makes a climate-resilient group, and the place they see their very own and UNICEF’s function in supporting it. By means of the following journey, we intention to safe the highest-level partnership commitments beginning in 2024.

• Work with the venture working- and technique teams to develop the venture plan (together with aim, timeline, donor pipeline, accomplice collaboration choices, and different core venture infrastructure) and guarantee that is carried out throughout the agreed scope, time, and funds. • Handle the operations of the working- and technique group, making certain that they’re progressing collaboratively and efficiently in opposition to a transparent venture aim and timeline and are helpful fora to drive success
• Construct and preserve robust relationships with international fundraising colleagues and collaborate with them to make sure that the venture helps them interact their local weather prospects and companions on the highest stage • Run workshops to have interaction international prospects and companions with UNICEF’s local weather work – with a concentrate on 4 markets.
• Collaborate with the UNICEF COP28 staff to make sure that the local weather co-creation venture is represented in UNICEF’s actions and partnership affords round this essential milestone • Collaborate with the Programme Group to make sure that the scope of the local weather co-creation venture is actionable and matches with UNICEF’s mandate.
• Monitor international and regional traits in high-value fundraising to make sure that UNICEF creates a strong and aggressive supply, consistent with viewers motivations.
• Handle the recruitment and work of any related exterior companies or consultants and fulfill different venture administration duties as wanted.

2. Establish, lead, and ship on streamlined methods of working within the convening house to drive revenue development from prospect and present 8-figure partnerships.

• In response to internally and externally recognized wants, help markets with and, the place related participate in, figuring out new engagement alternatives to have interaction potential high-value companions capable of enter ($10million+) partnerships with acceptable and related approaches and affords.
• The place helpful, act as a member of a ‘pitch staff’ to ship this engagement proposition to particular prospects.
• Make sure that any new engagement alternative has the help of PFP and NatCom champions and senior management and has a direct influence pathway to elevating vital presents from a high-value viewers.
• The place related, collaborate intently with Programme Group and Regional and Nation Workplaces to make sure their help with any new initiatives.

3. Contribute to the World Campaigns Workforce’s market information and affect initiatives.

• Work with the broader staff to Establish the bottlenecks and roadblocks which can be holding UNICEF high-value fundraisers again from securing $10M plus presents and develop actionable suggestions on learn how to tackle these.
• Establish traits within the high-value viewers sector and advocate alternatives based mostly on market and/ or viewers information to assist construct and maintain brief and long-term fundraising methods and development.
• Assist drive model consciousness and stakeholder understanding of the alternatives for high-value audiences to accomplice with the group.

4. Extra help on initiatives or tasks as wanted.

DELIVERABLES:

• Make sure that planning and supply of a climate-focused co-collaboration workshop with personal sector companions by Q2 2024.
• Ongoing developments of a co-collaboration mannequin for engagement with new and current personal sector companions are deliberate and delivered to schedule.
• Align, develop, and disseminate greatest follow pointers on recognition affords throughout the high-value revenue streams.
• Make sure that the comply with up after the supply of a climate-focused co-collaboration workshop is pushed ahead each personally and thru relationship managers to end in revenue ship for UNICEF’s progamme work.

Estimated Length of the contract

• 364 days

Reporting To:

• Fundraising Supervisor

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland is the official responsibility station. (Versatile work preparations could also be utilized if there’s a want.

To qualify as a champion for each youngster you should have…

Training:

• Superior college diploma in Social Sciences, Humanities, Enterprise Administration, or associated discipline is required.
• Alternatively, a first-level college diploma in a related discipline mixed with (2) further years of qualifying skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Expertise:

• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled work expertise is required ideally in main reward, company or basis fundraising.
• Data of the rules and follow of high-value fundraising, in addition to an understanding of worldwide growth is required.
• Direct expertise in cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding 6-7 determine personal sector partnerships is required.
• Direct expertise working in venture administration is an asset.
• Expertise working in worldwide organizations and on cross-divisional or cross-functional groups are further is an asset.
• UN/UNICEF expertise is an asset.

Language necessities:

• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian, or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Baby, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to realize impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) are required.

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals dwelling with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which can be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or needed inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.